Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category
Cool Apps to play with by VMware Engineers
Came across VMware Labs website today. A nice website for VMware to show case the quality work that its employees are developing to improve the general vSphere environment. I have used or looked at 1/2 of these and was pleasantly surprised to discover some new tools.
Per the site manifest:
This is our place to share cool [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: tools, VMware, vSphere
90 days to no more ESX 3.5 General Support
For everyone out, ESX 3.5 has 90 more days until General Support ends.
http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/eos.html
In: VMware · Tagged with: ESX, support
VMware Support offline for most of day due to power outage
On the 17th of Feb some form of Power Failure occurred at one of VMware’s Palo Alto locations. From what I understand this primarily affected the support systems and as such the phones were down for most of the day.
Update 18 Feb 10 @ 8:28pm:
@vmwarecares Network outage here caused by small plane crash in Palo [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: disasterrecovery, VMware
Cloud Computing Solution Provider – VMware
The recent Zimbra acquisition by VMware threw me a bit for a loop initially. Then I started chewing on it and read the good post by Rodney Haywood. Very shortly afterwords I had a classic Homer Duh moment.
VMware aims to build from the ground up the best cloud computing solution for sale as possible. That [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: cloud, VMware
Ideal Software Licensing Model – Requirements Collection
I’m looking for some feedback and thoughts from the community to help define a reasonable Licensing Model that takes Physical & Virtual into account. From my view as a client I don’t think this is all that complicated at the end of the day.
More discussions with some vendors around licensing and I’m finding more and [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: licensing, physical, virtual, Virtualization
Limits have their limits
I’ve been chewing on this post by Duncan at Yellow Bricks for the past month and a half. It covers some complicated issues that one has to deal with in a enterprise size environment with many assumptions on what gets you into this mess in the first place. The best thing to do is downscale [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: management, performance, VMware
New vmware.com HomePage Layout & View 4 is released
New vmware.com HomePage is now live. I had an “anonymous internet tipster” give the heads up last night. Looks good and a bit more sleek in fitting with the branding of the new vmware logo.
Along with that View 4 is finally released. I’ve been playing with some beta bits for a while now and the [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: view, VMware
Running 20008 Active Directory with Bind
One of the fun things about running stuff at home, once you have something working remotely well you sure don’t want to change it. As such I have setup Bind 9 with DHCP and it works pretty good with a bunch of scripts I have to handle various dynamic adding and removing from my running [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: ActiveDirectory, Bind, home, Windows2008
VI Client protects itself nicely
Ok.. Follow me on this one.
I am connecting from a laptop via View client to a Virtual Workstation running XP that then I launch VI Client on it and go to the console of my Virtual Workstation.
VI Client Console
In the old day VirtualCenter would just loose it’s little mind and crash horribly or do some [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: vi client, VMware
Hiring a non-tech person for a CTO
Citrix has gone and hired a new CTO
For me I’m seeing another business person at Citrix in charge of the technical direction, not someone that has a strong basis of engineering and technology.
Maybe I’m judging MBA’s harshly, though they are bred and trained to aim for sales and revenue. Engineering backgrounds aim for better products [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: citrix